For skateboarder Cory Juneau, all the support and love that people shower him with since he returned from the Olympics has been surreal. Juneau won Bronze for skateboarding at the Summer Olympics when it was an event at the competition for the first time.
The skateboarder from San Diego had a victorious ride at the Tokyo Olympics this summer. He carved on his skateboard through the Olympics course before doing a 540 spin on the wall situated at the opposite side of a park and then a heel flip over the edge of a pool. At the Olympics, Juneau caught his skateboard and moved through the corner. Then, he did an aerobatic move along the whole length of a high opening, benching a barrier on the edge of the center island in that park.
Juneau has long been finding skateboarding to be a pretty mellow form of sport. Beyond the company of the friends with whom he hits spots, Juneau has a personal quest to make his skateboarding technique perfect. Juneau finds it a highly physical sport, with a damaging effect on the human body. Nevertheless, Juneau always has fun with it, as he considers it the most important thing, unlike training, preparation or work.
Still, when the Olympics skating came about, Juneau wished to include something of a skateboarding routine that would aid in solidifying his skillset. Juneau has long been among the best bowl and park skateboarders in the world. Nevertheless, a serious way of dealing with skateboarding before the Summer Olympics helped him to be ready for the marquee event in Tokyo. His serious approach to skateboarding included practice, rest, and a form of diet that was at the same level as other athletes at the Summer Olympic Games.
Juneau has long been a professional skateboarder, which is remarkable for a 22-year-old. Almost all of Juneau’s closest associations were created through skateboarding over time. Things have happened organically and casually for Juneau. Always, Juneau finds himself where he should be and does not do something that appears inappropriate. For Juneau, the key to skateboarding is the right balance of having fun and discipline.
Juneau did not even think about participating in the Summer Olympic Games until 2019 when the contests started for the qualification of the event. At that time, Juneau found it to be an opportunity that would come about once in life. Therefore, he wished to participate in the event to the same extent as anybody else. Now, Juneau finds it fortunate that he could make it.
Since coming back from Tokyo, he has been part of a collaboration with the fashion brand known as Golden Goose. After all, skateboarding is a sport in which athletes are associated with brands to a great extent. Juneau’s association with that Italian shoe brand should be one of the most one-of-a-kind collaborations. Most skateboarders would usually consider working with just a few companies that attempt to promote skating footwear as much as possible. However, high fashion leather from Italy was not in the scheme of things for those skaters.
Juneau happened to be the first-ever athlete that Golden Goose from Venice has worked with. This collaboration represents every person who pushes their boundaries the whole way through to the podium at the Olympics.
There have been several sponsors for Juneau since he started to work with the skate shop in his area as a child. For instance, Juneau is proud about joining forces with Independent Trucks. At the team ‘Flip Skateboards’, Juneau expects to create a skate video that would define his career in the coming months. After the Summer Olympics, he has been thinking about making progress with regard to shooting fresh content for the video.
No other collaboration is more personal to Juneau than the one with that Italian fashion brand. As an 18-year-old, Juneau got a pair of Golden Goose leather shoes. It did not take long for Juneau to love the shoes; since then, he purchased some more pairs. An agency that he used to work with eventually asked which brands made him interested in those. He told the agency about skateboarding with the Golden Goose wear, and the agency was into it. Golden Goose then made an introduction with Juneau, and they have been perfect for each other since then.
Golden Goose was not a brand that Juneau’s peers thought about as he first signed the contract with it, but the skater got a lot of good feedback for his change of direction. As for Juneau, all at Golden Goose have messages to spread. He kind of attributes the successful collaboration with the brand to them getting on well with each other.
In September 2021, Golden Goose took Juneau to the 78th Venice International Film Festival and even built a skateboard ramp in Italy. As for Juneau, skateboarding on the ramp is among the wildest things he has experienced in life. Juneau finds the skateboarding industry to be accepting, but he reckons that it has unwritten rules that hardcore skaters follow.
At the Summer Olympics, there was plenty of pressure for the US skateboarding team to crush. The number of skateboarding medals did not go their way, but the sport expanded from SoCal streets to arguably the biggest sporting platform in the world. Still, it was unsurprising for Juneau to be the lone US citizen on the Summer Olympic podium, considering the inclusivity of the skating community.
Juneau feels that the Summer Olympics made skating international forever. At the same time, he reckons that people treating skateboarders more respectfully is also involved in the change. Juneau said that skateboarders are not people who come from deprived inner-city areas and who destroy things such as public property. Instead, Juneau stated that skaters do what they love, push one another and offer plenty of love. For Juneau, skateboarding is unlike what angry children perform.
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